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Re: fever after epidural From: Kathi Wilson (wilsonk@gtn.on.ca) Tue Jan 9 19:51:34 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Kathi Wilson: "Hypophosphatasia and pregnancy" Previous message: Garry Siegel: "Re: Jehovah's Witnesses - blood policy changes" "Braun, R. Daniel" wrote: > There is some evidence that epidural by itself induces a fever in a > significant number of patients. I don't remember whereit was published, but > it was written by Watson Bowes. I think that this is true, but in my (humble) experience, it a) doesn't cause a *high* fever (like 39C) and b) usually doesn't occur in women who have an epidural in place for only a short period of time. That's why our cut-off for pyrexia is temp > 38.5 on two separate evaluations and after bolusing some fluid. -- Kathi Wilson, RM Ilderton, Ontario, Canada mailto:wilsonk@gtn.on.ca ********************** Thames Valley Midwives 346 Platts Lane, London, Ontario, Canada http://tvm.on.ca mailto:info@tvm.on.ca Next message: Kathi Wilson: "Hypophosphatasia and pregnancy" Previous message: Garry Siegel: "Re: Jehovah's Witnesses - blood policy changes"

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